Hello, NSFW games doesn't shhow up even thougth i'm searching for specific tags and have my show nsfw content check box checked, it worked for a while and then, nothing i also tried checking and unchecking the box, same result.
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Remember, this isn't the first time itchio did some stupid shit. They have been banned and shadowbanned people before this Collective Shout controversy took place. Itchio is woke, so it's no surprise that they handled it this way.
It's not a bug, it's the result of an ungoing purge on the platform for the same reasons as the Steam purge (visa/mastercard banning payment for nsfw content and strongly enforcing it upon Steam and itch.io as we speak, because of right wing extremist group pushing for it). First nsfw, next anything LGBTQ+, or labelled as "woke" or "DEI". The game industry and the indie game dev scene is dying.
The fact both Steam and itch don't even try to fight it, don't even make a proper announcement and seem so eager to jump directly to full Tumblr purge mode is making beyond sad and disappointed.
I have no idea how this was possible until the Steam purge, but apparenthy that's not new at all and this is the root issues for other bans on other plateforms (Patreon, possibly Tumblr apparently, OF etc...). Also, no censorship is good. Banning sexual content (on a site that has a tag and filter system on top of that) is stupid and ALWAYS a slippery slope into censoring everything and the destruction of media and culture. Not the first time in history this has happened, and it's always under the guise of "protect women and the children" but look into the people pushing for censorship and you see they are full blown facist and biggots. They don't care about the children nor women.
As a trans man, I can assure you their end goal is to erase queer content and anything they dislike. Banning nsfw is an easy way to do so, they just have to push laws to label queer people as "indicent" or "porn" and boom now we also get banend from being represented or even posting anything.
Edit : Apparently some non erotic queer and horror games also got nuked on itch, according to people on the itch.io Discord server. So that last part is already in motion.
The fucking prohibition is long over and we do not live in Orwell's 1984. This shit's purely political and politics have no place in art or games. There's not a fucking thing wrong with controversy, porn, horror, or anything of the sort. Petitions probably won't solve a damn thing, but there's got to be ways to stand up to the spineless fuckers.
No shit! My grandmother wasn't as much of a prude as the assholes in charge are. If they took their dementia or alzheimer's meds, maybe hit the bong and got laid, they'd realize all they're doing is manufacturing issues because they think good Victorian children will still swoon and get the vapors because some girl flashed her ankle or wrist.
I just ran into this article that goes into more detail: Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles - Ars Technica